# Fractures at WW DRILLING, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076640` · 7/18/2017 · ANTON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** WW DRILLING, LLC
- **Location:** County Road 12 and County Road RR, ANTON, COLORADO, 80801
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee used tongs to pull a pipe apart and was trying to remove them from the pipe when the tongs struck and broke his ribs.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*